| Description: |
This course is a continuation of the Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Across the Lifespan I and II didactic courses and emphasizes disease prevention, health
promotion, diagnostic reasoning, and management of common illnesses in psychiatric
practice across the lifespan. Evidence-based practice, research, and theory continue
to be utilized to identify methods that are critical to advanced nursing practice
for health promotion and prevention of disease. Additionally, learners apply clinical
judgment to develop differential diagnoses and develop and implement an evidence-based
plan of care and therapeutic regimen including psychopharmacology. Research findings,
evidence-based practice and practice standards facilitate holistic and comprehensive
care, psychopharmacology and therapy with children, adolescents, adults, and older
adults as individuals in families or groups. An emphasis on advanced practice legal,
regulatory, and ethical issues are addressed. |
